Rhyme
The pattern in which words that rhyme ( or do not) in poetry
What is rhyme scheme?
This type of poem has two lines that follow the AA pattern.
What is a couplet?
sally sells sea shells by the sea shore is a example of
What is alliteration
The author of this excerpt is:
"Would you eat them in a box?
Would you eat them in a fox?
Who is Dr. Seuss?
ordinary spoken or written language
What is prose?
the rhyme of the end syllables of lines of poetry
What is end rhyme?
A poem that has three lines with a AAA pattern
What is a triplet?
rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used
What is assonance?
"His spurs they go 'neigh' and his horse it goes 'clang'/
And his six-gun goes 'gnab,' it never goes 'bang'
(by Shel Silverstein--need the title)
What is Backward Bill?
descriptive language that uses the 5 senses to create a visual
What is Imagery?
a poem with no regular pattern of rhyme or meter
What is free verse?
a poem that has 4 lines that could have different rhyme schemes
What is a quatrain?
a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
This is an excerpt from ______ written by Robert Frost, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood, And looked down one as far as I could, To where it bent in the undergrowth."
What is The Road Not Taken
Giving an animal, object, or idea humanform or characteristics
What is personification?
Rhyme pattern?
Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?
I do not like them here or there.
I do no like them anywhere?
What is AABB?
The Iliad is an example of
What is Epic poetry?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
"Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends." (shel silverstein wrote this poem)
What is where the sidewalk ends
A message an author or poet wants to emphasize
What is theme?
an arrangement of a certain number of lines that could be compared to a paragraph
What is a stanza?
CHALLENGE: a fourteen line poem; usually written in iambic pentameter; Shakespeare wrote many of these!
What is a sonnet?
A sign representing something other than itself
What is a symbol?
To be, or not to be: that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
A reference to another part of culture
What is an allusion?